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The Key to the Keystone
The Key to the Keystone
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Includes:
- 6+ hours of bonus videos with author Jonah Barnes discussing the content of every chapter and sharing bonus material that was not included in the book.
- Audio Book
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Summary of "The Key to the Keystone: How Apocryphal Texts Unlock The Book of Mormon's Brass Plates"
Over 2,000 years ago, a band of desert travelers huddled against the sandy blasts of the Arabian peninsula. They clutched in their arms a metallic book and absconded away to preserve it against the impending doom of the Babylonian invasion. This treasured text would become the source material for the Book of Mormon, one of the most influential books in American history. Though critics have tried (and spectacularly failed) to explain its origins, the Book of Mormon owes everything to this mysterious stolen text.
Yet that ancient brass book wasn't the only treasure to emerge from the sands of the Near East. Years after the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830, a cascade of newly discovered apocryphal texts would appear like voices from the dust. Using these miraculous new sources, independent researcher Jonah Barnes has used paleography and philology to reconstruct the content of Lehi's brass plates. His research will answer questions such as:
- Which books were on the brass plates stolen by Lehi in 597 BC? Can we read them?
- Who corrupted the Old Testament canon? And how badly?
- Who was Lucifer, and why does the Bible say so little about him?
- Who was Eve, and why are the Christian creeds so hard on women?
- Who was the prophet Abinadi? Where did he come from?
- How did the prophet Isaiah die? Who killed him and why?
- Who murdered the prophet Jeremiah? And what for?
- Why does the Book of Mormon sound too Messianic and not more Mosaic?
- Do the apocrypha support the authority of the Bible? Or do they support the Book of Mormon?
- Do anti-Mormons think Joseph Smith was a time-traveler? Do they think Elvis is still alive?
Filled with unique parallels and scriptural insights with recently discovered apocryphal works, the The Key to the Keystone will unlock the Book of Mormon and change your view of the mission of Jesus Christ. And it might make you chuckle along the way.
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The Key to Keystone is awesome. No ware else can you find a Book that increases your knowledge in the Book of Mormon, the Bible and the extra Biblical texts. They all come together as one and you can finally see what the Bible should have been and how the Book of Mormon aids in its Testimony of Christ, and the Restoration. Awesome Love it!
I only have have 2words, “must read.” Yall will enjoy it.
Jonah's book is extremely enlightening and very informative. It gives the reader a great perspective of what has happened to the Christian's understanding of Jesus and Jewish world today. Their vast misconception of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the greatness of the Book of Mormon.
Rather thought provoking.
I love Jonah Barnes and I love the information in this book. However, I feel like the level of snarky, punny humor in this book is causing the message to get lost sometimes. My brain spends as much time trying to process the metaphors and humor as it does digesting the content. Just my .02 cents.
I was hoping this book would be the information i could share with questioning or non-member friends... but the snarkyness is way too over the top to do that. They already think we Mormons are cocky know-it-alls... they don't need any more evidence to support that. I feel like Jonah should write a completely different version of this book with a more serious :discovery" kind of tone.